For the past few weeks I’ve been psyched for 888, for those of you who don’t know what 888 is, it is a YouTube Gather-Up Event Welcoming Party held this Friday, August 8, 2008 at the Ontario Science Centre in Toronto, CA. Since late June, early July, there has been much talk about 888 and much expectation, at least from me. So finally, after a month of waiting the date finally arrived! I got there a little bit late, because of some people, but I’m not mentioning any names, because there are too many to name. The party started at around 7, I got there at about 9, so yeah, talk about being fashionably late!
I walk in and wow, we had to take like three or four escalators in order to reach the party rooms! Luckily there were signs posted around and personnel helping us find our way, if it wasn’t for them I would’ve never made it to the party nor back! By the way, that was only my second time going to the OSC! Anyways, I’m there and there’s less people than what I expected, but okay I just thought that maybe everyone is just scattered around the different rooms. The funny thing is that the room where the music was, was virtually empty. Everyone was everywhere else! The free “food” that I was able to find were chips, pretzels and popcorn lying around on different tables and sadly the booze was not free. I had to pay $7 for a cup of vodka! Damn! Anyways, at the end of the party I had to conclude that last year’s YouTube Canada Party in October at the Berkeley Church was much better and more exciting. It was actually live! Unlike this “party.”
Not really looking forward to 999, if there even is one! Then again, most likely if there is a 999, it will be in the States somewhere. Although I didn’t like the event as much as I hoped, I still had fun meeting new and old YouTubers, I’ve actually taken a couple pictures with them. To see the pictures please visit: http://djsalbro.webs.com/apps/photos/.
Although the party wasn’t as good as I had hoped, the night itself ended up being awesome because a couple friends of mine, and I of course, went off to a club in downtown Toronto called lot334 where we just literally partied the night away! Smirnoff was about $8, I think, but still good! I had three bottles and I was good. Not drunk, just a little tipsy, but still good. Got home at 4AM on Saturday and yet I wanted to be able to make my way to 898 for the YouTube Meet-Up since I’ve promised hundreds that I was going to go! Sadly the weather wasn’t as good as I hoped, and I was still a little dozed off from the alcohol so I just stayed behind. Luckily I had no hangover, so that was a plus! Although I didn’t make my way to 898, I still got to see some of the events online through different YouTubers who was broadcasting the event live.
By the way, the website (Officially DJ Salbro) has been re-updated with pictures from the 888 event, new layouts, a new video from an upcoming DJ photo shoot, and more! Check out the updates and tell me what you think!
